That depends on the political environment, you still had to get the CIO to accept being booted out of the stand-up, the stakeholders to accept you deciding on the requirements and so on. Sometimes it's relatively easy, sometimes it's impossible.

We love to say this, and it makes the techie inside feel good, but then why are there so many good devs and so few great leads?

On the contrary. Dealing with bullshitters is much more difficult than writing code.

In my experience, it's way harder to find good managers than it is finding good developers. Maybe I've just seen a bunch of talented devs and outright terrible managers, but that's my data point.

Dunno, I think I’d rather have one of you than one extra good dev.

The org also needs to be set up to do this though. I’d love to boot some people out of our meetings and prevent them from waffling on.